I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.
The maternal instinct is in me.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I'm not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.
And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?
I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I named Mama Bear because, actually, I wanted to be the mama.
I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.
